Benjamin Chambers writes:

Reading some old hard-copy issues of The New Yorker dating from the 1990s, I ran across the “Postscript” piece by Lee Lorenz on George Price, from the January 30, 1995 issue.

I grew up with Price’s angular, line-drawing cartoons and his quirkily dry sense of humor— and since the guy did over 1,200 drawings for the magazine between 1929 and his death, many people alive today can say the same—so I was stunned to learn that “only one [of his cartoons], amazingly, was based on an idea of his own.”

What Price was good at was drawing, and so he used punchlines that were (continued)

Emily Gordon writes:

Courtesy of one of my favorite blogs, Leif Peng’s “Today’s Inspiration”—which you can, and should, get as a daily email full of vintage magazine covers, illustrations, comics, ads, and all-around cup-spiller-overs—here’s a statement with which we can heartily agree, expressed in words by Richard Taylor (writing in American Artist in October 1950) and in pictures by good old Hank Ketcham. (continued)

Pollux writes:

Jillian Lovejoy Lowery and Howard Megdal come up with unscientific rankings measuring the greatness of the members of the Algonquin Round Table.

Some of these stars have dimmed since their heyday, and Lowery and Megdal discuss whether Alexander Woollcott, for example, deserves to be “buried by history” or whether Franklin P. Adams deserves his current obscurity. Dorothy Parker is no. 1 on both posted lists.

Emdashes readers, post your own rankings here! (continued)